Gerardo Marti is L. Richardson King Professor of Sociology at Davidson College. He is the author of several books, including A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic Church , Hollywood Faith: Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a Los Angeles Church, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity, and Latino Protestants in America: Growing and Diverse.

The strength of this study lies in Marti's willingness to challenge his own preconceptions about how music assists the creation and maintenance of multiracial congregations by listening closely to the testimony offered by his informants, and by drawing on an array of theoretical provocations... In the end, Marti discovers, what is vital about the music promulgated by successful multiracial congregations isn't the sound per se or the degree to which it signposts ethnic particularities, but the practices it engendersrehearsals, Sunday performances, after-hours meeting and mealsand the meaningful human relationships it ultimately creates.

• PrefaceChapter 1 Introduction: The Dream of Diversity and the Dilemma of Music Part I Confronting Popular Notions at the Intersection of Race and WorshipChapter 2 Popular Beliefs about Worship in Multiracial ChurchesChapter 3 African Americans as the Icon of "True Worship" Part II Worship Experience and Music Selection in Multiracial ChurchesChapter 4 The Naïve Experience of Worship in Multiracial ChurchesChapter 5 The Challenge of Leading Multiracial Worship Part III Negotiating Race and Achieving Congregational Diversity Chapter 6 Variety and Intentionality in the Design of Multiracial WorshipChapter 7 "Have You Seen Our Gospel Choir?" Conspicuous Color in Multiracial Worship Chapter 8 Interracial Community through Multiracial Worship PracticesConclusion Mystical Worship and the Reality of Practice Appendix: Research MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex

Gerardo Marti is L. Richardson King Professor of Sociology at Davidson College. He is the author of several books, including A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic Church , Hollywood Faith: Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a Los Angeles Church, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity, and Latino Protestants in America: Growing and Diverse.

The strength of this study lies in Marti's willingness to challenge his own preconceptions about how music assists the creation and maintenance of multiracial congregations by listening closely to the testimony offered by his informants, and by drawing on an array of theoretical provocations... In the end, Marti discovers, what is vital about the music promulgated by successful multiracial congregations isn't the sound per se or the degree to which it signposts ethnic particularities, but the practices it engendersrehearsals, Sunday performances, after-hours meeting and mealsand the meaningful human relationships it ultimately creates.

• PrefaceChapter 1 Introduction: The Dream of Diversity and the Dilemma of Music Part I Confronting Popular Notions at the Intersection of Race and WorshipChapter 2 Popular Beliefs about Worship in Multiracial ChurchesChapter 3 African Americans as the Icon of "True Worship" Part II Worship Experience and Music Selection in Multiracial ChurchesChapter 4 The Naïve Experience of Worship in Multiracial ChurchesChapter 5 The Challenge of Leading Multiracial Worship Part III Negotiating Race and Achieving Congregational Diversity Chapter 6 Variety and Intentionality in the Design of Multiracial WorshipChapter 7 "Have You Seen Our Gospel Choir?" Conspicuous Color in Multiracial Worship Chapter 8 Interracial Community through Multiracial Worship PracticesConclusion Mystical Worship and the Reality of Practice Appendix: Research MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex

Gerardo Marti is L. Richardson King Professor of Sociology at Davidson College. He is the author of several books, including A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic Church , Hollywood Faith: Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a Los Angeles Church, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity, and Latino Protestants in America: Growing and Diverse.

The strength of this study lies in Marti's willingness to challenge his own preconceptions about how music assists the creation and maintenance of multiracial congregations by listening closely to the testimony offered by his informants, and by drawing on an array of theoretical provocations... In the end, Marti discovers, what is vital about the music promulgated by successful multiracial congregations isn't the sound per se or the degree to which it signposts ethnic particularities, but the practices it engendersrehearsals, Sunday performances, after-hours meeting and mealsand the meaningful human relationships it ultimately creates.

• PrefaceChapter 1 Introduction: The Dream of Diversity and the Dilemma of Music Part I Confronting Popular Notions at the Intersection of Race and WorshipChapter 2 Popular Beliefs about Worship in Multiracial ChurchesChapter 3 African Americans as the Icon of "True Worship" Part II Worship Experience and Music Selection in Multiracial ChurchesChapter 4 The Naïve Experience of Worship in Multiracial ChurchesChapter 5 The Challenge of Leading Multiracial Worship Part III Negotiating Race and Achieving Congregational Diversity Chapter 6 Variety and Intentionality in the Design of Multiracial WorshipChapter 7 "Have You Seen Our Gospel Choir?" Conspicuous Color in Multiracial Worship Chapter 8 Interracial Community through Multiracial Worship PracticesConclusion Mystical Worship and the Reality of Practice Appendix: Research MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex